A state judge who says he was assaulted by a police officer is accusing the Queens district attorney of orchestrating a cover-up after the prosecutor announced yesterday he will not file criminal charges against the officer who allegedly hit the judge and assaulted a homeless man.

“Everything they say is a lie,” Queens Supreme Court Justice Thomas Raffaele (See Profile) said in response to District Attorney Richard Brown’s press release.

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