LOS ANGELES A Nigerian national who stole the identities of thousands of people has been sentenced to 5 and a half years in federal prison. Adedayo Benson was also ordered in Los Angeles court yesterday to pay nearly 155-thousand dollars in restitution to ten financial companies. He and his sister were arrested in 2002 on charges of tapping into several public records databases, got access to some seven thousand people and used their I-Ds to buy at least a (m) million dollars in merchandise. Authorities say the siblings posed as real estate agents and opened accounts with ChoicePoint, Advantage Financial...