Lawmaker’s firm paid to throw speaker’s ball

A company headed by a Republican House member was paid tens of thousands of dollars to help throw a lavish party in honor of House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, raising conflict-of-interest questions.

An Oklahoma Ethics Commission report shows Poligram, an event planning and management firm founded and run by Rep. Mike Os-burn, R-Edmond, was paid $40,000 in operating expenses related to planning…