It's an interesting thought but no. I'm fairly certain he didn't have solid connections with Raffaele or they'd have worked together in some way, in the drug business especially but instead he worked with the Gambinos, Frank Coppola specifically.

Not to mention the timeline, in the late 1980s Raffaele was convicted and placed in a prison-island where the only population there was him, I think. Later Toto Riina was put in the same place.

Also something else the American CN should take a page out of Camorra's book is paying the families of incarcerated soldiers, even low-raking ones. They routinely give them about 500 eur a month throught middlemen, to pay the rent, food, and such.