The government's case against financier Benjamin Wey may be on the verge of collapse.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office earlier this week requested a one-week adjournment from an Aug. 2 deadline.

Prosecutors, the letter said, “are awaiting a decision from the Office of the Solicitor General … on whether the government will appeal the court's June 14, 2017, order suppressing evidence in the case.”