Brooklyn's MCSquared, which represents Ecuador in its long-running legal battle with Chevron over pollution in the Amazon, filled a correction to its July Justice Dept. registration, showing disbursements of $1.9M.

Those outlays include payments to celebrity/talent scouting agencies American Program Bureau ($330K) and Greater Talent Network ($188K).

The shop spent $167K for an event for New York's Ecuadorian community, $19K for a Columbia University journalism conference and $4,500 to foot the bill for a trip to Ecuador by Chevron hometown mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, CA.

A $360K expense went for advertising in the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, West County Times and TV/radio ads on Spanish language outlets.

Maria Garay, MCSquared's executive director, received $180K of the $232K in disbursements made to her firm during the period from 5/1/13 to 4/30/14.

The document includes a collection of press releases to promote trips to the pollution impacted Ecuador rain forest made by activists Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of famed ocean photographer/explorer Jacques.

According to MCSquared's release, the National Secretariat of Communication of Ecuador, an initiative of President Rafael Correa, invited Cousteau to visit the contaminated area.

The firm's media outreach list includes targets such as Diane Sawyer (ABC), Leonard Lopate (NPR), Jason Stein (Al Jazeera), Christianne Amanpour (CNN), Chris Hayes (MSNBC), Andrew Marantz (New Yorker), Berenice Gartner (Univision) and Jon Stewart (Comedy Central).