 In 2007 the Commission brought actions against the largest debt buying companies for practices that ethical industry members also deplored.In her 2006 "The Washington Post" article, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Liz Pulliam Weston described some of the worst practices debt buyer industry attorneys had used.This included "badgering" consumers for debts already released through bankruptcy", lawsuits or threats of lawsuits over debts released because "the statute of limitations had expired", put pressure on consumers by claiming their 'old debt' is a 'new one' thereby "illegally 're-aging' debts on credit reports and "extending the seven-year limit."