"The business' headquarters on Collins Drive is in the same neighborhood where Len and Lance Turner spent their childhoods riding dirt bikes and hanging out in the 1960s, when the Oakland Coliseum was built and opened. That small side street will soon be renamed Turner Group Drive in honor of their contributions a legislation approved this week by the Oakland City Council."
"Beyond overcoming the odds of sustaining a construction firm in an industry dominated by major corporations, the Turner brothers are also notable for being two of the rare defendants to beat federal conspiracy charges in a 2017 criminal trial. Federal prosecutors had accused the brothers, along with a then-Oakland councilman's son, of a bid-rigging scheme to skim nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy involving a Lawrence Livermore Lab renovation contract."
"The public corruption investigation in the East Bay spun out of a wide-ranging probe in San Francisco that targeted Keith Jackson, a former city school board member, and ultimately brought down state Sen. Leland Yee and Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow, one of the Bay Area's most notorious organized crime leaders. The Turner brothers spent years rehabilitating Turner Group Construction's reputation after jurors acquitted Lance Turner and failed to convict Len."
Oakland will rename a small Collins Drive side street Turner Group Drive to honor a family-run construction company that has operated for three decades in a neglected East Oakland commercial corridor along Hegenberger Road. Len and Lance Turner grew up nearby, built their headquarters on Collins Drive, and kept the business open while other firms left. Federal prosecutors accused the brothers of participating in a bid-rigging scheme to skim nearly $2 million from a U.S. Department of Energy renovation contract tied to Lawrence Livermore Lab, part of a wider corruption probe. Jurors acquitted Lance and failed to convict Len, and the City Council unanimously approved the renaming after a proposal by Councilmember Ken Houston.
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