Here’s a quick look at top contributors to Neil Abercrombie’s gubernatorial campaign during the first six months of this year. The list includes those who gave $4,000 or more during the period.

Six officers or employees of Mitsunaga & Associations, a local architecural/engineering firm, combined to contribute a total of $35,000 during the period.

Abigail Kawananakoa contributed $6,000, as did the Native Hawaiian PAC, chaired by Robin Danner. Country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson added $5,000.

Dennis Mitsunaga, president of Mitsunaga & Associates, has previously raised funds for former governor Ben Cayetano, former mayor Jeremy Harris, and other elected officials.

He was also accused of being part of a “pay to play” scheme in which campaign contributions were solicited in exchange for government contracts. The allegations were made by deputy city prosecutor Randal Lee in 2004. Lee said they were based on testimony of another engineer charged with making an illegal contribution.

Mitsunaga strongly denied the allegations, and said that results of a private lie detector test backed him up. No charges were ever filed against Mitsunaga, as far as I can tell from checking the federal and state court records.

Many of the individuals and companies named in the earlier investigation of illegal contributions have contributed heavily to the current campaign of Abercrombie’s main opponent, Mufi Hannemann.

Top recent contributors to Hannemann’s campaign were reported earlier.