Ghislaine Maxwell tells DOJ she doesn't believe Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in federal prison

On Friday, the Justice Department released hours of transcripts and audio recordings from interviews in which Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sat down with Maxwell in a federal prison in Tallahassee.

During the interview, Maxwell was asked if she believed Epstein killed himself. 

"I do not believe he died by suicide, no," she said.

"There's a third component to that, which is having experienced now, the mismanagement and inefficiencies and total dereliction of duty at the Bureau of Prisons."

"In prison, where I am, they will kill you or they will pay - somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you for $25 worth of commissary," she added. "That's about the going rate for a hit with a lock today."

"If it is indeed murder, I believe it was an internal situation," she said, further stating that she didn't believe his death was a way to silence him. 

"I do not have any reason to believe that," she added. "And I also think it's ludicrous because if that - I also happen to think if that is what they wanted, they would've had plenty of opportunity when he wasn't in jail. And if they were worried about blackmail or anything from him, he would've been a very easy target.